People who enjoy playing with LEGO can now turn their hobby into a full-time job.

Thackray Medical Museum is looking to recruit a LEGO build coordinator on a six-month contract and it is offering up to £11.50 an hour.

It says it is looking for a 'passionate', 'highly organised' and 'imaginative' person who can build a scaled down model of the Leeds museum out of LEGO.

The job advert states: "We are looking to engage an enthusiastic build coordinator with a passion for LEGO to manage the build project and create a stunning minifigure size model of the Thackray Medical Museum made of LEGO bricks.

"Supported by our build consultants, Warren Elsmore Ltd, the LEGO build coordinator will work from a LEGO CAD design to create the external façade of the Grade II listed workhouse.

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"The internal galleries will be open to creative interpretation, providing many creative opportunities for the coordinator to work with visitors and groups.

"The model will be designed by Warren Elsmore Ltd but built on site by the LEGO coordinator. The build will happen in three, six month phases, with the finished model completed in time for the 2020 reopening of the new museum."

The LEGO build coordinator will also be tasked with encouraging visitors to buy a block for £1 and place it on the scaled-down model of the Grade II listed building.

The museum is aiming to sell 150,000 bricks so it can raise money to help fund a £4 million rennovation.

People who are interested in the unique job must submit an application by Friday, June 15 and then impress museum staff with their LEGO building skills at an audition day on Wednesday, June 20.

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